Investment Q&A

Q: Hi Team,
Would appreciate your analysis of NXO & its prospects. Thanks

Q: Zymeworks had quite a lift today. Can you provide any colour? Thank you.

Q: Can you please comment on the decline of PZA over the last few months. Is it expensive compare to peers and a good time to start a position ? Thank you.

Q: Hi team,
I go to the U.S. mainly for tech stocks. I have FB, GOOG and SQ for some time now, happy with all. In Canada, I have KXS (thank you very much), BYL and OTEX (my perennial laggard that I still like).

There are many U.S. tech stocks on my watch list but I will ask about TTD, The Trade Desk. As I understand its model, it is into digital advertising by selling programming on a real-time electronic auction basis. TTD went public last year, had a strong run, faded back and seems to be acting better these days. I have seen positive comments on it on several U.S. business sites in the past month or so. One U.S. analyst (for what that’s worth) had it among his top ideas for 2018.

Your thoughts on this one?

Thanks again,
dave

Q: I've been looking for an ETF that covers the Blockchain space. BLOK.N from Amplify looks interesting as a managed ETF. This should be much safer that trying to play on the Cryptocurrency side. I'm in the technology space (software) and sort of the exponential growth of unstructured data we now create, I have not seen such a transformational new technology such as Blockchain.

https://www.amplifyetfs.com/blok

Q: Sitting out the weed stock ride is getting expensive and I am looking for a way to get involved with something that has some tangible reason to believe. Some stocks just seem to bounce up and down based on different sides speculating on the same news story. Are there three stocks you could recommend that are not a complete turkey shoot? What do you like about them?

Q: Is this a company that you know anything about? Based on the website it sounds like they plan to get involved in selling marijuana world wide but I can't tell if there is an actual business today. I'm not contemplating a purchase but wonder what your thoughts would be on how to approach something like this stock.

Q: Hi,
On Jan 23 someone asked about insider transactions info.
CEO.CA has a very easy-to-use insider function (sign-in not required).
Just enter the stock symbol in the CEO search bar; then click on the SEDI tab.
As an example, here is the link to Stella-Jones page.
https://ceo.ca/sj

Q: I believe yesterday you had somewhat indicated that Saputo's future growth may be limited. If this were to be the case, do you see an eventual longterm decline / flattening of the stock price due to a potential decline in P/E ratio? Do you see it becoming more of a dividend paying stock as opposed to growth stock as it matures?

Thanks.

Q: What is your current opinion on Premium Brands,

Q: I am looking for a preferred that can be expected to hold its' value over time. I understand that it should be a decent credit rating, have a fixed reset rate and be non-convertible. Does this preferred meet that criteria, or could you recommend one ?

Thank you,

Tim

Q: Hi,
I live in Ontario and we have private medical benefits through my husbands employer that cover 80% (to a limit) of our medication costs. I recently refilled my son's asthma inhalers. The government covered the entire cost and our private coverage (which we pay a portion for) now pays nothing. The government / tax payer now pays the entire amount and private insurance now pays nothing even when the customer has coverage. Do you think this will have a significant impact on any health insurance share prices/earnings? If so what companies would benefit the most by having a large client base in Ontario?
Thanks,
Kerri

Q: If you had ALA for a five year hold would you keep it or sell and buy Fortis? The difference in yield does not matter. Thanks Bill

Q: Looking at adding a position in COV but it has really run up since your initial recommendation. Do you place price targets on your positions? If not, does this stock have a lot of room to run if added at current levels?

Thanks.

Q: Hi, Could you please comment on Stella-Jones Earnings pre released in order to disclose the impact of new US Tax law. While company seems to indicate flat to lower profitability, new Tax law seems to have a positive effect. Thanks

Q: I currently have a half position in CXI, I also have an almost full position in ECN. CXI isn't doing very much and I was thinking of moving the funds from CXI to ECN. Which one has the better potential?

I have Aegon ADR for a few years now. It is now moving in the right direction, but I am still down on it (in SDRSP). Is it worth holding or do you have some other International Financial companies that you think are better?

Lastly I have a half position in Alacer. Is it worth hanging on to, or would a switch to FNV or Anigco be better?

Thanks.

Q: Hi,
We need some help with revamping our health care stock strategy. Money not needed for 10 -15 years. Our health care stocks are SIS, GUD, Gilead, and PLI. We are underwater on all except SIS (thx it's been a great performer). I'd like to sell Gilead (owned for about 3-4 years and down 20%) and come up with a better US$ pick since there are so many more options in the states. What would be your best suggestion?
Thanks,
Kerri

Q: Hi with Oil at its price today how much upside can one expect from companies like BTE, CPG I've owned them from when they were at $40. I don't expect them to see that level anytime soon I just want to plan selling them. Thanks, Nick

Q: Would you known why BCE share price has dropped by almost $5 from mid-December till now?
Also, when will BCE be publishing their next quarterly results?
Thanks
… Cal

Q: Hi,
I'm wondering about this IPO, primarily for it's focus on industries / sectors I feel will provide future growth. However, I have concerns over some of the wording in the prospectus and feel this may just be a 'flyer', as opposed to a trust unit opportunity. It is slated to begin trading under the ticker BL.UN and think it may be worth waiting to see how the IPO goes, before trying to assess its potential. I am wondering if you could offer any thoughts on it, as I have come to value your insight very much and certainly have benefited with your recommendation of NVDA as a stock focused on the future of AI. If your view is that there is a better approach through a selection of stocks or ETFs (such as ROBO or ARKW), then feel free to redirect my attention.

As always, I look forward to your thoughts.

Thanks,
Dawn